Writer & Entrepreneur

Marina Hatsopoulos is Board Chair of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology, and President of Hellenic Innovation Network, which serves as a bridge for tech startups expanding from Greece to the U.S. She is a Trustee of Berklee College of Music in Boston, as well as ALBA Business School and Athens College, both in Greece, and on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She is founding advisor of MIT startup Inkbit. She is on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece (now called StartSmart SEE), Eurobank’s EGG accelerator, and Mindspace Entrepreneurship Program. She will be co-teaching a class (Spring 2025) within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT on the topic of Entrepreneurship for Hardware Startups.

Ms. Hatsopoulos is a public speaker on topics related to tech entrepreneurship at MIT, Brown, and other institutions, and her business writing has been published in Venturebeat, The Observer, CEOWorld Magazine, Design News, Time Compression Technologies, and Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003). She gave a Tedx talk about the opportunity for startups to grow the economy in Greece and an Interview for Innovative Greeks with Marco Veremis. Her prize-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Missouri Review, Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary, Santa Monica Review, and other literary journals.